Women Suffrage Movement

Introduction: The woman suffrage movement, which began in the northeastern United States, developed in the context of antebellum reform. Many women began speaking out for woman's rights when their efforts to participate equally with men in the great reform movements of the day - including antislavery and temperance - were rebuffed. These early feminists demanded a wide range of changes in woman's social, moral, legal, educational, and economic status; the right to vote was not …

…of all their demands, and adopted it by a narrow margin at the insistence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. After the Civil War, women's rights leaders saw enfranchisement as one of the most important, perhaps the most important of their goals. They were extremely disappointed when the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not provide universal suffrage for all Americans, but extended the franchise only to black men. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** www.hpo.com